1895 Movies

A tiny fragment of an actuality film of Tom Merry (William Mechem),a 'lightning sketch' caricaturist performing his act for the camera and producing...

Incident at Clovelly Cottage, also known as Incident Outside Clovelly Cottage, Barnet, shot by Birt Acres and produced by Acres and his collaborator R...

An 1895 British short black and white silent comedy film featuring two drunken men and a boy squabbling in a small bar.

A western short depicting the execution of a horse thief by a group of enraged cowboys. This film is considered to be lost.

Directed by W.K.L Dickson.

An early Kinora demonstration film.

The participants are natives of Ceylon. Their dance is very interesting being so different from Western ideas of harmonies of motion.

A short black-and-white silent documentary film featuring one dog jumping through hoops and another dancing in a costume, which was considered lost un...

Directed by Birt Acres.

A lost film of two boxers.

An ordinary walk.

Samoan Islanders from Barnum & Bailey's Circus perform a dance.

A short of Mr. Grundy dancing. He's a Black man in a jockey outfit and there's someone in a horse costume dancing next to him.

Oscar de Raoul demonstrates a bendy walk.

Scene from a Trilby-themed stage play. Lost.

By Fiji Islanders. A peculiar dance by genuine savages, dressed or rather undressed, in their native garb. The revel takes its name from the paddles t...

A native dance peculiar to India. Very odd and interesting. Strange costumes and stranger motions.

Anonymous performer for Edison Manufacturing Co.

A group of men, identified as "Muslims of Saint-Louis," at the Exposition Ethnographique de L'Afrique Occidentale in Paris.

The Nicholas Sisters perform a "split dance" from a Koster & Bial’s Music Hall stage production.